October 2011
5 posts
Art or Photography? →
Alexa Meade is a photographer who photographs a painted version of her subjects to look like art.
This is what you call reaching for your dreams. →
“I know you’ve come to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man.”
– Che
May 2011
1 post
November 2010
2 posts
“Books are useless to us until our own book opens.”
– Vivekanand
October 2010
1 post
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you...”
– Mother Teresa
August 2010
1 post
“All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that.”
– Vivekananda
July 2010
2 posts
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I can assure you it...”
– Bill Shankly
June 2010
8 posts
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same...”
The Innocent Prisoner's Dilemma →
A story of one man against the system.
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but the man who has...”
– Bruce Lee
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks...”
– Thomas Edison
May 2010
8 posts
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via karmayogi54)
“Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions.”
– Robin Hood
“If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you...”
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
– Rabindranath Tagore (via karmayogi54)
Biomechanics Fact of the Day: Crocodile Bites →
Sarcosuchus imperator, an ancient relative of modern alligators and crocodiles, had the most powerful bite of any living animal, producing 18,000psi (pounds per square inch) per bite. In other words, its the equivalent of being trapped under a medium sized semi-truck. Today’s crocodiles have continued the tradition of having the strongest bite on the planet (albeit a little weaker) with a...
April 2010
21 posts
Images of Disappearing Glaciers →
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
– Michael Jordan (via flashprodigy)
Nicholas Winton, the silent guardian. →
In 1938, Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish kids escape certain death from the Nazis, but never told anyone until his wife found some records. They became known as Winton’s children. 22 original survivors, now aged 70, went to see Winton again. He is 100 and his family of survivors has swelled to 7000. They’re all alive because of him.
Philosophical Reasoning Taught In Second Grade →
Hatetris →
Tetris variant that is engineered to give the player the worst possible piece at the worst possible time, every time.
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Itzhak Perlman - Schindler’s List original...
“Some men see things as they are and say “Why?”
I dream of things...”
– George Bernard Shaw
First multicellular animal found that lives... →
Skin Stem Cells Reprogrammed As Heart Cells Beat... →
Through induced pluripotency, adult cells are genetically reprogrammed into a near-embryonic state, from which they are capable of becoming almost any type of cell. In this case, they were successfully formed into heart cells complete with all the electrical and organizational properties.
“No matter how much it has done for your mind, your education has been a failure...”
– St. Frances deSale
